Lombard Street (San Francisco)
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Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero (with a gap on Telegraph Hill). Most of Lombard Street's western segment is a major thoroughfare designated as part of U.S. Route 101. The famous one-block section, claimed to be "the crookedest street in the world", is located along the eastern segment in the Russian Hill neighborhood. It is a major tourist attraction, receiving around two million visitors per year and up to 17,000 per day on busy summer weekends, as of 2015.[1]
Part of | US 101 between Richardson Ave./Broderick St. and Van Ness Avenue |
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Namesake | Philadelphia's Lombard Street |
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Coordinates | 37°48′07″N 122°25′08″W |
West end | Presidio Boulevard |
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East end | The Embarcadero |
San Francisco surveyor Jasper O'Farrell named the road after Lombard Street in Philadelphia.[2]